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Ending support of public folder
Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.
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As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
- LGM - the issue is that people are abusing it and causing issues for everybody by getting the Dropbox domains blacklisted which cause emails to fail and downloads to be blocked by firewalls etc.
In terms of changing the extension, sorry, no idea how you would do that!
This is a disaster for me. Dropbox had the easiest way of sharing files for posting on forums, etc. I have hundreds of images and files that were posted to various forums over MANY years. I host game mods I make.
Having one isolated folder for public sharing seems to me safer than being able to share any file anywhere.
This looks like a stupid idea cooked up by some drone in marketing. If I have to migrate my files and use more convoluted way of sharing I will be dropping Dropbox.
Dropbox needs to be aware that both One Drive and Google drive offerings are better. If they want to alienate long term users and cause massive exodus, be my guest.
Having one isolated folder for public sharing seems to me safer than being able to share any file anywhere.
This looks like a stupid idea cooked up by some drone in marketing. If I have to migrate my files and use more convoluted way of sharing I will be dropping Dropbox.
Dropbox needs to be aware that both One Drive and Google drive offerings are better. If they want to alienate long term users and cause massive exodus, be my guest.
Join this petition to save your Public folder links!
https://www.change.org/p/dropbox-save-our-public-links
There are nearly 600 comments on this thread and over 22,000 views. If we all sign the petition it will be very hard for them to ignore.
